1980 Laurie Marlow moved to Sydney and was living in Kings Cross with a few friends up from Adelaide who were working with the band SWANEE .Kelly was playing guitar in that band, Laurie had met KEL numerous times when they toured Adelaide. One night while sharing a cab ride home (Kel also lived in Kings X) the two got talking and KEL spoke of his desire to play in something heavier and he was tired of being in SWANEE.

Loz informs Kel that he is looking around for players top start a new band that would suit the style he is looking for where
you can let loose on the guitar, Kel is interested and asks who else you got? LOZ thought for a minute and said "There's a couple of guys in Adelaide that I was in a band with (HEROES),their band FAT LIP has just split and they are not doing anything (ALAN and ROB HANNAH).

So they gave ALAN a call who had just missed out on getting the ACDC role to Brian Johnson(KEL did the talking as LOZ knew ALAN admired him as a guitar player).AL said " cool, I will bring up ROB HANNAH and DON CLAPROTH (HEROES drummer and guitar player),and we can use the name FAT LIP because the band had Sydney gigs that needed to be fulfilled .They worked under that name for about 6 months, DON CLAPROTH, was replaced by John Hease, ALDO CIVITICO replaced ROB HANNAH for a short time before family commitments forced him to leave and he was replaced by JOE TURTUR. MICHAEL BROWNING came into the picture and suggested a name change and the boys came up with HEAVEN.
The band issued the single "Fantasy" and a debut album 'Twilight Of Mischief' before Haese was replaced in early 1982 byformer ROSE TATTOO guitarist Mick Cocks as the band relocated to Los Angeles. The debut album 'Twilight Of Mischief' was later re-released by CBS Records with a new cover, revised track listing ("Tuesday Morning" was replaced with "In the beginning" & "One Nighter") and a new album title of 'Bent', as a New York band already had the rights to the HEAVEN tag over there so the album was released as Heaven Bent . In America the band opened up shows for JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH and KISS.

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